Everyone loves the taste of freshly squeezed lemonade. I know, I sure do. Not the artificially flavored powder that is mixed with water but the real deal. No one though, wants to sit there and hand squeeze the juice out of each lemon. It’s hard work, time consuming and it takes quite a bit to make one glass. However, that is exactly what the great juicer requires of us. We tend to want the quick and easy but he is God of the timely, worth-it-all process.

Greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer affliction. This has come so that the proven genuineness of your faith, of greater worth than gold, may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. – 1 Peter 1:6-7

I can testify. When I laid bare before God, asking him to “make an unearasable mark. Here I am.” I didn’t truly count the cost. Yet, it’s a worthy price. Allowing him to purge, cut, isolate, transplant and squeeze me has led to a life worth living. A life of great purpose. After all, isn’t that why we’re here? To live that purpose driven life. He is the only one that can truly turn us lemons into lemonade.

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When God squeezes us, he has a purpose. He’s not out to make us miserable, he is out to make us immovable. We tend to blame the enemy every time something looks bad but the truth is God allows many things that seem bad to actually squeeze us. He is preparing us for our greater calling. Every cut, every purge, every discomfort and every hurt is refining us. Yet, we must keep our heart pure and free of bitterness and the temptation to give up. Allow him to develop, purify and make something beautiful out of you.

What the world is thirsty for is something real, that fresh squeezed Godmade lemonade that can not be counterfeited.

Keep your head up dear ones for with every squeeze comes favor, peace and fulfillment. For he does not forsake the righteous. Psalm 37:28 We were born for this. ?

Welcome to Lens of Faith! My passion is to speak, to write, to encourage as I allow the Holy Spirit to lead. My prayer is for you to fulfill your God given passion, potential, and purpose. It's my honor to journey together.
hugs, Leah

“Faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.”
Hebrews 11:1 ♥